8.10 Children and Juveniles detained at the Grootvlei Correctional Centre 8.10.1 Children should be diverted or where there is no other option detained in secure care centres designed especially for them so that their specific needs can be met. While the Committee welcomes interventions put in place to reduce the number of incarcerated children, there remains a need for greater cooperation between the departments of Social Development, Justice and Constitutional Development and Correctional Services. At the Grootvlei Correctional Centre children did not participate in any programmes. While the Committee accepted that children should not be incarcerated and that the provision of programmes and education to them was not the DCS' responsibility, the fact that they were in its care, requires the DCS to partner with departments that shared the responsibility for caring for delinquent children, to ensure that their needs are met, and that incarceration did not damage them further. It is hoped that the Child Justice Act, that is to come into operation in April 2010, will result in greater coordination of efforts to ensure better care for children in conflict with the law.